Bible verse
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
Job 24:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 24.
1 “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
KJV
Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
ASV
Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.
ERV
Behold, as wild asses in the desert they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.
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